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Dear Readers,
Historians tell us to learn from our past; our mistakes, triumphs, war, and peace. A notion echoed in the ubiquotous quote originally attributed to George Santayana, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The same can be said of grants.
Most grants come about on an annual cycle, with similar deadlines, award amounts, and eligibility. This essentially leaves applicants with a never ending cycle of funding opportunities. To learn from your peers, grant...

Healthcare is a business, yet it typically trails most business-related trends by several decades. For instance, while most other businesses began the transformation to electronic record-keeping in the late 1980s and 1990s, the movement in healthcare has primarily happened over the past five years. Considering that healthcare is a life-critical system as opposed to a mission-critical business, any change must be approached with caution. However, occasionally government regulations and the political arena force rapid change and evolution in the business model. Taking the example of electronic health records (EHRs), it was the combination of government incentives (to adopt) built into the 2009 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that finally provided the impetus for providers to make the jump to EHRs....

...it’s who.
At least that’s true in the world of public safety. Most in the public safety realm are well aware of the annually administered, direct, federal grants, such as the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and the Justice Assistance Grant Local Solicitation. These grants are a “straight shot” from applicant to funder—that is, the applying entity submits an application directly to the funding agency—no middle person.
However, there are a myriad of programs from the Department...

When most Americans think of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, they probably don’t think of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, nor do they probably think of how the HEA was established to strengthen the resources of public Institutions of Higher Education (IHE). More likely, what comes to mind is the ability for students to receive financial assistance for post-secondary education. But what about the funding that goes directly to institutions?
When Title III (“Institutional...